Cleaning mop



Dec. 29, 1942.

1.. T. JEUNG CLEANING MOP Filed June 1s. 1941 Patented Dec. 29, 1942UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CLEANING MOP Luk T. J eung, New York,N. Y.Application June 18, 1941, Serial No. 398,662

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a cleaning mop and has for an object toprovide a simplified mop structure including, a mop head formed of loopsof fibrous loosely twisted strands secured together at their looped endsby a wire clamp which is disposed in notches in the inclined ends of abar on the end of the handle and is further secured to the bar bystrands passed through the bar and knotted on the wire, the entirestructure being such that no metal is exposed and the fibrous mop headconceals the attaching bar so that only fibrous material may touch thearticle being cleaned Whether a floor, wall, piece of furniture or otherarticle with the result that the finish of the article will not bemarred or scratched during the cleaning operation.

A further object is to provide apparatus of this character which will beformed of a few strong, simple and durable parts, which will beinexpensive to manufacture, and which will not easily get out of order.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists ofcertain novel details of construction and combinations of partshereinafter fully described and claimed, it being understood thatvarious modifications may be resorted to within the scope of theappended claim without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any ofthe advantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification:

Figure l is a top plan View of a cleaning mop constructed in accordancewith the invention with the handle removed from the handle socket of themop.

Figure 2 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the mop with the bar andhandle socket in elevation.

Referring now to the drawing in which like characters of referencedesignate similar parts in the various views, I designates a bar formedof wood or other material having inclined ends II provided near thebottom with V-shape grooves or notches I2. Spaced openings I3 are formedin the bar.

A handle receiving socket I4 of tubular formation is provided at thelower end with tabs I5 which overlap the sides of the bar I0 and aresecured to the bar by screws I6. The handle socket may receive handlesof different sizes and difierent shapes.

The mop head is formed of a plurality of looped of the mop fibrousloosely twisted strands IT. The strands are engaged at their loops on atie wire I8 which is engaged in the notches I2 and twisted upon itselfas shown at I9a in Figure l to bind the strands I! to the bar Ii].

For preventing accidental displacement of the mop head from the wood bara pair of cables I 9 are engaged through the openings I3. Each cable islooped over one longitudinal side of the tie wire and is then twistedupon itself and is finally looped over the other longitudinal tie wireand then knotted as shown at 20 in Figure 2.

As also shown in Figure 2 the tie wire is concealed by the fibrousstrands and also the fibrous strands engage over the bottom of the barI0 and conceal the bar. Thus no hard material may come in contact withthe finish of a surface being cleaned so that the mop cannot mar thesurface during the cleaning operation.

As shown in Figure 1 the fibrous strands I1 may be bound togetheroutside of the bar I0 by a line of stitching 2I so that the free endportions of the strands will be limp to properly perform the cleaningfunction while the secured ends of the strands will be shaped into acompact mass joining the bar ID to minimize stress on the tie wire I8since the mass of fibrous material at the bar will be more resistant toflexing than the free ends of the fibrous strands.

From the above description it is thought that the construction andoperation of the invention will be fully understood without furtherexplanation.

What is claimed is:

A mop including a cleaning head formed of loose twisted fibrous strandsfolded to form loops, an elongated bar having inclined ends providedwith transverse V-shaped grooves at the lower edges thereof, said barhaving flat side faces with transverse openings in horizontal alinementwith the V-shaped grooves extending through the bar between said sidefaces, a closed loop tie wire trained through the loops of the fibrousstrands and engaged in said V-shaped grooves to tie the strands togetherand secure the same by a wedging action in the V-shaped grooves, andsecuring strands passing through the openings in the bar and secured atboth ends to opposite sides of the tie wire loop to draw the sametightly against the sides of the bar and holding the looped ends of thetwisted fibrous strands in a position to cover the lower edge of thebar.

LUK T. JEUNG.

